Do No Harm Growing our food on land that used to be intact forests and prairies is killing the planet, setting up the processes of our own extinction. The minimum requirement should be a variation of the physician's credo: "Do no harm."

"Vegans don't feel they are deprived. They feel fortunate to have been awakened. It is not difficult to be vegan once you get past the initial re-educating yourself from the misconceptions you were indoctrinated with ...

The first picture that comes up on Martha Stewart's website may be a turkey, but look a little further and you'll see a swarm of VEG-friendliness. On Thursday, November 19, Martha dedicated her whole show to "Vegetarian Thanksgiving."

It's not the case that the world needs new values, it just needs a new story--a story that more accurately reflects what's going on in the world and more directly connects it to who we already are, not who we want to be, just who we already are.

Bees teach us how to live our life in a way that by taking what we need from the world around us, we leave the world better than we found it. Beekeeping is rising in popularity -- from urban rooftops to backyard hives, the world is abuzz with interest

Here is a list of the top 75 blogs out there grouped in the following categories: Cooking & Recipes, News & Politics, Health & Nutrition, Animal Rights, Lifestyle, Beauty and Fashion, Thinking about Becoming a Vegetarian or Vegan, and Family.

Legislation to make California the first state to legalize marijuana for recreational use lit up a Capitol committee hearing Wednesday with three hours of lively but mellow debate

People should give up eating meat to halt climate change, according to Lord Stern of Brentford, a leading authority on global warming.

Some folks believe that it's okay to hate vegans. As a result, vegans are goaded and called annoying and even accused of smelling like incense.

7.3 billion trees have been planted in 167 countries since the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the initiative in 2006. The effort aimed to sequester vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere while generating benefits -- including erosion control